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Chase Allen Gillis was 16 when he was killed on July 12, 2017, at a home on Briar Creek Trail in Lizella, Georgia. He had gone to the house intending to trade a Glock for an AR-15. Inside were 19-year-old Logan Nettles (known as Carrot Top) and 23-year-old David Billingsley.

Initial accounts described the encounter as a gun swap that escalated when Gillis allegedly pointed his weapon at Nettles and Billingsley shot Gillis in the head with an AR-15; Gillis died at the scene. Both Nettles and Billingsley fled but were located nearby and Billingsley later told investigators he had discarded his pistol in a storm drain. Deputies had been called to that residence 19 times in the year before the shooting, including multiple reports of shots fired.

Investigators later concluded the shooting was not self-defense. In August 2022 a grand jury indicted Nettles and Billingsley on felony murder charges, with authorities alleging the two had been attempting to rob Gillis. Did anyone in the community know Chase or have information about his movements that day?